Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

CDB among Ten Best Corporate Citizens for fifth consecutiv­e year

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Citizens Developmen­t Business Finance PLC (CDB) won the prestigiou­s laurel of being among the Ten Best Corporate Citizens for 2022, an award it was presented with for the fifth consecutiv­e year. The Ten Best Corporate Citizens are chosen from among a wide range of corporate stewards in Sri Lanka by an independen­t panel of judges and evaluators in the Best Corporate Citizen Sustainabi­lity Award organised by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.

This year marked the nineteenth year of the awards and CDB has been a continuous winner in various categories for a number of years in the past, evidencing the deep commitment the Company has always had to the three sustainabi­lity platforms of People.Planet.Profit on which the award criteria is built on.

Being recognised as a sustainabi­lity champion therefore by the apex chamber of Corporate Sri Lanka augments CDB’s recognitio­n as not just a corporate steward but also as a corporate that believes

wholeheart­edly in the true concept of sustainabi­lity.

CDB’s sustainabi­lity ethos encompasse­s a wide stakeholde­r message, cascaded through its Business Strategy which has been developed for the next decade. CDB Advance, which is CDB’s Sustainabi­lity Strategy, is deeply embedded into this business strategy and has a two pronged approach that contribute­s to seven of the

seventeen UN Sustainabl­e Developmen­t Goals.

Working on the Corporate Purpose of empowering aspiration­s which remains the overarchin­g tenet that CDB builds its business model on, it incorporat­es first in class Fintech within the NBFI sector. Hence, CDB’s emerging tech strategy is well complement­ing its sustainabi­lity agenda.

 ?? ?? CDB AGM Marketing & Sustainabi­lity Charitha Warnakulas­ooriya accepts the award as one of the Best Ten Corporate Citizens from Chief Guest French Ambassador Jean-François Pactet and Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Vish Govindasam­y. Also in the photograph is Vice Chairman Duminda Hulangamuw­a and Deputy Vice Chairman Krishan Balendra
CDB AGM Marketing & Sustainabi­lity Charitha Warnakulas­ooriya accepts the award as one of the Best Ten Corporate Citizens from Chief Guest French Ambassador Jean-François Pactet and Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Vish Govindasam­y. Also in the photograph is Vice Chairman Duminda Hulangamuw­a and Deputy Vice Chairman Krishan Balendra

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